Coffee Origin : Kenya, Embu county

Coffee Species : Arabica

Coffee Varietal : Ruiru 11, SL-28, Batian

Coffee Elevation : 1750

Coffee Farm/ Producers :

Gakundu Farmers’ Cooperative Society

Date Sampled : 3/30/2021

Coffee Processing : Washed

The fragrance of the beans are of blue corn, blackberry, raspberry, white currant, bakers chocolate, dill, pink lemon, pink salt, chamomile, hazelnut, bottle brush, allspice, rose hips, soil, red tea, saffron, and ocean water

The grounds have the fragrance of stewed tomato, blackberry, black currant, strawberry, allspice, magnolia, toasted hazelnut, rubber, dark chocolate, blood orange, bottle brush, tobacco, jasmine, black tea, dried pineapple, and nougat

Aroma

The aroma is of cocoa nib, saffron, baked strawberry, dill, white currant, almond flour, dried white pineapple, stewed tomato, pink lemon, magnolia, raspberry, tobacco, blackberry, marshmallow, leather, and tamarind,

Body

This is a medium body coffee that is well rounded with a creamy forward that pairs to a sticky coating at the finish

Acidity

This is a high acidity coffee that is bright and tart with a lingering dry finish

Flavor

The flavors of this coffee are lime, bottle brush, green apple, freeze-dried raspberry, bakers chocolate, blue corn, black currant, soil, blood orange juice, allspice, bottle brush, blackberry, baked strawberry, hazelnut, gray salt, squash blossom, and green apple

As it cools notes of Cara Cara orange, apricot jam, and a tased like of creme fraiche develop.

Trinity - Zero

The aroma is of soil, bakers chocolate, black walnut, allspice, freeze-dried blackberry, and tobacco

The body is smoother with a tea-like consistency and a feel of silk

The acidity is just as being cupped

The flavors of this brew method are of Oro Blanco grapefruit, bottle brush, freeze-dried raspberry, bakers chocolate, red currant, blackberry, pink salt, black walnut, vanillin, and oak

This brewing method does not do anything to help or really change the coffee and is much like what it was like cupped

CUPPING

At the crack, the aroma is of milk chocolate, bergamot, white tea, oat, chia, white grape, almond flour, oak, mandarin orange, gooseberry jam, lilac, sundried tomato, and baked mulberry.

This is a week body that is tea-like with a juicy and syrupy coating that is quick

This is a medium-high acidity that is very juicy with a lingering and deep berry juice like feel

The flavor is of blood orange, Asian pear, dill, white cranberry, mulberry, bergamot, hibiscus, macho banana, finger lime, cracked ginger, magnolia, yellow tea, green papaya, white grape, oak, damp clay, baked strawberry, hops, mushroom, coffee cherry, and cassis

As it cools notes of tobacco and herbs develop with a tart marshmallow taste

FELLOW STAGG XF

The aroma is of white cranberry, black tea, hibiscus, golden apple, bergamot, oat, dill, magnolia, and lilac

The Body is very weak like of tea and watery

The acidity is not existent but is juicy with a very delicate floral note

The flavors of tobacco, oak, vanillin, red apple, macho banana, allspice, mulberry, bergamot, yellow tea, green papaya, white grape, and lilac